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Coding is Cool
Maaike Beenen
Maaike
• Founder of Pink Moose designGraphic design & UX designwww.pinkmoose.fi
• Founder of UX FinlandOrganizing World Usability Day 13.11.2014www.uxfinland.com
• Marketing Manager at Mypose www.mypose.fi
• Most important job though: Mum of two lovely kids
80’s The story begins…
90’s/early 2000
Nowadays
EXAMPLES OF WORK
Coding is cool because?
• You can influence the design • It’s fun to figure out how to do something new
and make it work! Problem solving skills!• It’s acceptable to listen to music with
headphones on and drink lots of coffee• Necessary skills nowadays in design, you
should at least understand basics and possibilities of coding
Survival skills neededas a designer
• Ruby on rails / textedit / Dreamweaver etc. - any coding program
• Html(5)/CSS(3) knowledge and anything on top of that is a plus
• Some ‘Sisu’, enthusiasm and Google search